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H/D +Cracked c/board

Hi
My brother brought me a h/d that has a cracked controller board.
He needs some of the files on it and asked if i could get them back for him.Now i was wondering if i could replace the controler board with one from another h/d that was the same make and size.
Please if you have any ideas let me know
Thank you
Mike

Sorry if I didn't answer your question. But as far as my guru told me last time (if my memory serve me well) once it is broke the whole thing gone. But may be now a days there is a technology for that kind of thing.

Jinksy is right, it can be done, but the two drives have to be absolutely identical.

Yes, you may need some fancy screwdrivers..........it is TORK by the way..............I would love to see someone using a torque tool on a HDD There are also some advanced philips/posidrive ones I have seen..........4 slots on two tiers?, I have the driver bits but I don't know what they are called.

Data recovery is seriously expensive. Last time I checked it was around $10 per Mb.............now the bad news, they recover all or nothing so a 20Gb drive is like 20 x 1000 x $10

If you cannot do someone any good: don't do them any harm....
As long as you did this to one of these, the least of my little ones............you did it unto Me.
What profiteth a man if he gains the entire World at the expense of his immortal soul?